--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "wernerapnj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This evening the colored people denounced the hot-headed persons who talked
> of
> holding the indignation meeting. After conferring together, the leaders of
> the colored
> people decided that Mr. Bradley's action was justified by the circumstances,
> and there
> will be no trouble here over the race question.
> """"
> The New York Times -1890
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Applying modern values and standards to interpret events of another time and
> context
> leads to distorted conclusions.
>
> Werner
>
True, but some values and standards are neither modern nor ancient, just
universal.
Bradley may not, in his heart, have believed that one race was inherently
superior to
another. He did, however, market his new city as a Christian retreat while
(along with his
hotel guests) openly flouting the most basic directives of that religion's
spiritual forbear.
In so doing, he only added another layer of hypocrisy to that which already
existed in his
denial of equal rights to those upon whose labor the prosperity of his city
relied.
None of this changes the fact that he laid out a mean street plan and funded
some very
progressive feats of municipal engineering. Those accomplishments should never
be
minimized or forgotten. But just as the sewage system, flared streets and
boardwalk are a
part of the man's legacy, so to is the degree to which the last line of the
above Times
article proved wrong.
Warts and all, as they say.
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